Mackenzie is a small suburb located in the south-east of Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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. This is an "out-back" suburb containing no large or small shopping centres. The area is partially covered by undeveloped bushland

Bushland

Bushland is any area in Australia that is predominantly indigenous flora and fauna.Bushland is the term commonly used by conservation protection groups and other environmental groups as a blanket term for natural vegetation, which may cover any kind of habitat from open shrubby country with few...

. Mount Petrie

Mount Petrie

Mount Petrie is a small mountain in the south east of the city of Brisbane. The 170 metre rise sometimes referred to as Petrie Hill, elevates semi-rural residential parts in the suburbs of Mackenzie and Burbank....

 is located in Mackenzie.

There are two churches, one school, Mount Petrie State School and a single petrol station located in Mackenzie. A number of residential estates with hundreds of new house

House

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s have been built in this suburb in the last decade.

It takes 20-25 minutes to drive the 20km to the Brisbane CBD via the South East Freeway (off-peak). Neighbouring suburbs include Belmont

Belmont, Queensland

Belmont is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 12 km south-east of the CBD.Belmont is named after the original estate in 1876, the estate grew and became the Belmont Shire in 1901...

, Carindale

Carindale, Queensland

Carindale is a suburb of the city of Brisbane, which has a population of approximately 15,135 people and contains around 4,976 dwellings. The greater area was formerly known as Belmont....

, Mansfield

Mansfield, Queensland

Mansfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, situated approximately 11 kilometres south-east of the CBD. It is located in the region of the city which is now colloquially known as the "Bible Belt" due to the large number of people who have settled there to be close to Fundamentalist Christian...

, Rochedale

Rochedale, Queensland

Rochedale is an outer suburb of the city of Brisbane, Australia. It is south-east of the Brisbane central business district.- History :During convict settlement, explorers passed through the region but it was not until 1865 that the first settlers started farming the area's rich alluvial soil.The...

, Upper Mount Gravatt

Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Upper Mount Gravatt is a suburb in Brisbane, to the south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an important centre in the last 15 years...

, Wishart

Wishart, Queensland

Wishart is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 14 km south-east of the CBD.The Brisbane Adventist College, Mansfield State High School and Primary Schools are located near to Wishart. Bulimba Creek flows through the suburb....

, Burbank

Burbank, Queensland

Burbank is a large, greenbelt suburb in south east Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The suburb was named after Frank Burbank, a local horse dealer. Mount Petrie lies just to the north of the suburb. Burbank has a number of small intermittent creeks winding between cleared and uncleared rolling...

 and Chandler

Chandler, Queensland

Chandler is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia south-east of the CBD.Chandler was named after Sir John Beals Chandler and is a semi-rural suburb and not yet heavily developed or subdivided.-External links:** *...

. Major roads such as Mount Gravatt - Capalaba Road and Gateway Motorway

Gateway Motorway

The Gateway Motorway is a major motorway in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The Gateway Bridge is owned and operated by Queensland Motorways....

 run through Mackenzie.

Mt Gravatt Bus services around Mackenzie, buses can access to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital

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, Garden City

Westfield Garden City

Westfield Garden City, better known as Garden City, is one of Brisbane's major shopping centres, located in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt. The centre is operated by Westfield, and previously operated by AMP Limited before the takeover in 2003...

 and City

Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district , sometimes referred to as the city, is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River. The triangular shaped area is bounded by the Brisbane River to the east, south and west...

.

External links

• University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Mackenzie